Shock and Awe Page #7

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between Iraqi intelligence...

and 9/11 hijacker,

Mohamed Atta.

Bush administration is pressing

the United Nations...

Security Council for

a resolution...

to put pressure on Iraq.

President Bush will address

the United Nations today...

in hopes of putting together

a multi-national coalition...

to disarm Saddam Hussein.

The White House is lobbying

Congress to authorize...

the use of force in Iraq.

The minute these guys get

their hands on anything...

remotely resembling evidence...

they leak it to

The New York Times.

Now, I understand the position

you're in...

but please don't hang up on me.

LOOSE NUKES:
Okay.

Okay, the vice president

of the United States...

went to the V.F.W. and said that

Saddam Hussein...

is on the threshold of

developing a nuclear weapon.

Then he goes on national

television...

and says the same thing.

Your question?

Ask the question.

What I want to know is,

is Dick Cheney ignoring...

good intelligence that

contradicts his assumptions...

or is he just getting bad

intelligence?

The vice president is lying.

Thank you, thank you so much.

What? What, what, what?

What'd she say?

He's lying.

- He's lying.

- Cheney is lying.

- Cheney's lying!

- Cheney's lying!

- He's lying! John!

- He's lying!

John!

Where the hell is he?

Here we go. Here we go.

- He's lying.

- He's lying.

Cheney's lying.

Where did this come from?

Loose Nukes.

Okay.

Now, we know what's being talk

about, we got to get inside...

those meetings and find out if

there's a dissenting opinion.

I may have a guy.

Anybody we know?

The Usual Suspect.

You didn't want to do

this in a parking garage?

If there was one that served

Pad Thai, I would.

How's civilian life?

My retirement lasted about

four hours.

You're with Knight Ridder?

I don't even have a desk yet.

How the hell do you know that?

I have my ways.

You been following what we're

doing over there?

Yes, I have.

And?

You two may be singlehandedly

saving...

the Fourth Estate from

extinction.

Mainstream media hasn't picked

up a thing we been running.

Should be all the confirmation

you need...

that you're onto something.

What can I do for you?

We need some help with the

higher ups.

How high?

High as you can get us.

You've been around a long time,

Joe.

I doubt there's anything there

that'll surprise you.

I was married one time

to a woman who thought...

New Hampshire was the capital

of Massachusetts.

There's always something you

don't see coming.

What do you want to know?

Everything the administration

doesn't want us to know.

You and I are going to be eating

a lot of Pad Thai.

What kind of time frame

are we looking at?

Next month, Congress

is scheduled to vote...

on whether or not to give

the president...

the authorization to go to war.

Are the votes there?

The administration thinks so.

Mr. President, 38 years ago,

I, Robert C. Byrd...

voted on the Tonkin Gulf

Resolution.

The resolution that authorized

the president to use military...

force to repel armed attacks...

and to prevent further communist

aggression in Southeast Asia.

A joint resolution to authorize

the use of United States...

armed forces against Iraq should

be brought to a close.

The clerk will call the roll.

CLERK:
Mr. Biden, aye.

Mrs. Clinton, aye.

It was this resolution that

provided the basis...

for American involvement

in the war in Vietnam.

Mr. Kerry, aye.

Mr. Lieberman, aye.

Mr. Lott, aye.

It was this resolution...

that lead to the deaths

of 58,000 Americans.

Mr. McCain, aye.

Mr. McConnell, aye.

After all that carnage, we began

to learn that in voting...

for the Tonkin Gulf

resolution...

we were basing our votes

on bad information.

And history is repeating itself.

Mr. Santorum, aye.

I urge senators to go down

on the Capital Mall...

and look at the Vietnam

Memorial.

Nearly every day, you will find

someone at that wall...

weeping for a loved one.

Mr. Sessions, aye.

I will always remember the words

of Senator Wayne Morse.

Mr. Specter, aye.

He stated, "The resolution will

pass and senators...

"who vote for it will live

to regret it."

We got K-10, we got Dixie,

we don't need another source.

You know we got this.

Look, when you're accusing the

secretary of defense...

of running a shadow

intelligence unit...

out of the Pentagon, it's nice

to have a little insurance.

That's all I'm saying.

All right, let's share it

with the rest of the class.

You want to tell them?

Earlier today, I was summoned

to the Pentagon.

By whom?

Rumsfeld, Ol' Limp Dick

sent a message saying...

"All your sources are retired

generals."

And I said, "All due respect,

sir...

"80% of my sources are

active military."

"Some of them are working

in this building...

"and some of them are actually

working on your staff."

"And hell, one or two of them

might even be in this room."

Did you actually have sources

in the room?

No, but it was fun watching him

sweat like whores in church.

How close are we to getting

something we can run with

on the Office of Special Plans?

Well, we already got...

No, we're just gonna check

with a couple more sources.

What's wrong with the sources

you have?

Well, we just want to be

certain.

You know, you sit on a story

like this, the dam bursts.

Let's just move on this,

okay, boys?

When are you gonna be finished?

Just a few more minutes, baby.

I can't sleep with the computer

light on.

Actually, I'm done.

So, what are you working on?

Rumsfeld has a secret Intel

group that's going...

around the CIA to manufacture

a case for war.

What the f***, Jonathan?

What?

Have you been talking about this

on the phone?

Yeah, of course.

So, what?

- They will hear you.

- Vlatka.

You're writing about infighting

between spy agencies.

So?

They're spy agencies, Jonathan.

They listen to your calls,

they read your emails.

They probably bugged this house.

You're being paranoid.

You're being naive.

This isn't Yugoslavia,

this is America.

America has changed.

War is big business for them.

You get in their way,

they're gonna kill you.

Honey, you are being ridiculous.

All right? Come on.

Don't you get it?

You know what these people

are capable of?

You have a family!

Vlatka. Vlatka!

Oh, somebody's struggling.

What's the matter?

Oh, Vlatka kept me up all night.

All right!

No, not that like that. It was

conspiracy theories.

About what?

Oh... she thinks the government

is monitoring us.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

Check your email.

John, you got to see this.

Oh, hold on a second.

Arthur, I really don't want to

have this conversation again.

He hung up. What is it?

What do we do?

- You're such a wuss.

- You're a wuss.

You're a much bigger wuss.

Shut up, will you stop it,

you're being a child.

- You're being a...

- Shut up!

REPORTER:
Today's UN Security

Council resolution...

can be boiled down to four

words, the clock is ticking.

Iraq's only alternative to full

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